Midnight 35mm showing of Batman Returns. Near spotless print.
The darkness and color depth are insane. Take every video copy and dial down the brightness almost all the way, and then you begin to approach just how rich the print is. Words fail me. It is gorgeous. The color timing on top of this is very subtle, and not filled with the overall blues everywhere on video. Then there may have been Technicolor magic to boot.
The sound seemed to go between Dolby SR-D 5.1 and the analog Dolby Stereo. In patches things got very quiet, dialogue was cleaner and things were more discrete. And then it would jump up in volume, feel more confined and punchier, dialogue was noisier with sibilance. So I think it was maybe 30-40 minutes 5.1 and the rest analog Dolby Stereo SR (which is how it was mixed and designed, and honestly IMO a better track)
4 balls out of 4. The best ever live action comic book film. Burton's masterpiece.